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wings

/wingz/US // wɪŋz //

翅膀,机翼,翼,翅子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
    • : a gold-embroidered green badge in the shape of a spread pair of bird wings worn by junior and cadette Girl Scouts to indicate previous membership in a Brownie troop.

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Examples

  • Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

  • At the same time, the heaviest parts—the main fuselage, the engines and wings—sink to the bottom.

  • Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

  • People scream, the orchestra stops playing, and the stage manager whisks the diva into the wings.

  • The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

  • Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

  • To be sure, he hadn't seen Mrs. Robin go, but he had heard the beat of her wings as she began her flight.

  • We followed the upland past the end of the Stone till we found a slope that didn't require wings for descent.

  • And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

  • To this the great do not care to lend their ears, and the small have not wings strong enough to fly so far.